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And domestic violence has increased because victims are more confident in reporting incidents.

The Chief Constable said: “I do think that part of that increase is because it has become spoken about its less of a taboo subject, there is far more support available for victims than there used to be and people are confident nowadays that they will be listen to, that they will be believed that wasn’t necessarily the case 10 or 15 years ago or even more recent than that really.

“So that has helped increase the spark of reported offences that we are finding but each of those investigations, each of those allegations need to be properly investigated and looked into hopefully so that we can deal effectively with the offender and we can provide the victims with some sort of a closure in that case.”

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Asked if the increase was about how crime was recorded, the lead office believed it was a real rise.

He said: “I think there is a bit of both. Undoubtedly, there are some areas around the stuff I have said around the internet, whether that’s fraud, whether that’s sexual grooming of young people, whether that’s bullying online.

“All of those are classed as internet crimes. There is undoubtedly an increase in those offences right across the country.

“It is tangible. I think some of the stuff about reported crime is because people genuinely are starting to come forward more than they used to do because they are confident or more confident that they will be listened to. “If you look at some of our figures, in Cambridgeshire for instance, we have some of the highest levels of satisfaction for victims of domestic abuse when their case has been dealt with by the police.

“So that starts to bring with it more confidence to report offences so I’m pleased about that but it is the volume of stuff that’s coming through that’s presenting us with a lot of the challenges that we face at the moment.”

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But he says gone are the days when a police officer was just collaring burglars and vandals.

Now it is about cybercrime, terror and the sex industry.

He said: “Some of the traditional crime types that we perhaps think about like burglaries or car crime, criminal damage that sort of offence, has stayed pretty static what we have seen is a big, over the last 12 months, spike in domestic abuse, in child abuse reports in modern day slavery offences and in particular a huge increase in cybercrime that’s been reported and effectively online internet crime as well which a few years ago would have simply not have existed as a crime type. So those are our real challenges.

“My biggest concern at the moment is that our officers are able to deal with the threats and challenges that face the communities of Cambridge.

“And those threats seem to be mounting we’ve had the terror threats where armed police had to be on the streets after London and Westminster Bridge.

“Non-traditional policing is the modern day slavery that we are seeing and in Cambridge we have seen a large number of pop up brothels. It is a resource led issue when you are dealing with a vulnerable victim of modern day slavery and does take a lot of resources from the police.

“These are very often sophisticated and well planned and you might well have the main offenders or people who are instigating these offences living in various parts of the UK, sometimes in Europe.

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“There’s a lot of detailed investigation to go on as well, and once we’ve identified where the victim it is a case of dealing with them and hopefully making them safe and taking them away from the dangers that they face.

“So very rarely are they straight forward investigations to mount and, of course the impact on those victims is massive - it has an emotional, physical, life changing impact on them. It's absolutely right and proper that the police service do focus on things like modern day slavery.

"Similarly with child sexual exploitation, all those types of offences have such a significant impact on the quality of people's lives and it's really important we deal with them effectively."